
Research communitySample
Research Data Alliance
RDA
A community-driven organisation, launched in 2013, that builds the social and technical bridges needed to share and reuse research data.
What they publish
- FAIR Data Maturity ModelModel
- Indicators for assessing how Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and Reusable a dataset is.
- RDA RecommendationsReport
- Endorsed outputs of working groups, adopted by research infrastructures around the world.
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